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THE SUCCESSION. TnB police of San Francisco recently dis KANSAS STATE NEWS. NEWS OF THE WEEK. covered the headquarters of anultra-So- Mr. Randall's Scheme for Filling a Presi EYANSVILLE HERALD, dential Vacancy.

Washington, December 18. Mr. Ran Gleaned by Telegraph and Mall. dall has prepared a bill for Introduction In KANSAS. EVANSVILLR the flouse entitled "a bill In relation to the manner of filling vacancies In the offices of President and Vice President" It pro CONGRESSIONAL, The Senate was not In session on the 12th.

the House mot the Speaker laid be fore that body a large number of exooutlve communications, including the annual re CURRENT COMMENT. An addition to George Eeliot'u memoirs has been discovered, relating to the most active period of her literary life. Tho work is about to be published. In the District Court at Atchison udge Martin refused the application for a new trial In tho case of Baldwin, convicted of the murdor of his slstor. The prisoner, under the sentence of death, goes to the Penitentiary, where, under the laws of the State, he will stay one yoar, after which the Governor may sign his death warrant.

The case will be taken to the Supreme Court for a new trial Charters lately filed with tho Secretary of State: The Lakln, Syracuse Frisco Stage Company, ef Lakin and Syracuse, Finney County; the Topeka Denver Air Lino Railroad Company. Place of business, Topeka. Route, from Topeka In a northwesterly direction through the counties, of Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Davis, Jackson, Pottawatomie, Riley, Dickinson, Clay, Ottawa, Lincoln, Mitchell, Thomas and Sherman to a point on the west boundary of the State. The Colony, Neosho Falls Western Railroad Company. Place of business, Colony, Woodson County.

Route, from Colony through Anderson, Allen, Wilson, Woodson, Greenwood, Elk and cialistio society whoso purpose was the assassination of prominent citizens and the firing of Chinatown, Four arrests were made and the capture effected of a quantity of dynamite and Infernal machines. FiKR recently at Philadelphia caused losses which aggregated nearly $100,000. Morrell printers and typographers, lost about Newman Hagodell, shirt manufacturers, lost $30,000, and the Electrio Motor Company $20,000. The insurance was $53,000. Tub act of Dakota deolaring itself a State and electing United States Senators is declared by prominent politicians to be revolutionary.

Tub water from Black Creek continued to pour into tho Haleigh and Ebervale mines at Hazleton, through the large breach in the surface made by the recent collapse. Both colleries will be Idle all winter, throwing 1,000 men out of work. The loss sustained will reach $200,000, and may greatly exceed that figure. Escapino gas recently exploded in the vault of the treasury of Terra Haute, Ind. Deputy Bell and City Clerk Davis were vides: First That the Presidential Electors shall hold their office for the term of one year.

Second That whenever, In ease of removal, death or resignation of the President, the Vice President shall have become President of the United States, the electors shall meet In their respective States and elect another Vice President. In the same manner, In the case of the removal, resignation, death or disability of the President and Vice President, the electors shall elect another President and another Vice Presi THE MILITIA. annual Convention of the National Ouaref Association. Washington, December 16. The fourth inuual convention of the National Guard Association of the United States mot yesterday morning.

President Wingate, of New ork, opened the convention by an address, in which he said the condition of the association was more favorable, and that bills now before Congress would receive favorable consideration. General Taylor, ot Colorado, was electod Recording Secretary, and Colonel Charles E. Bridge, of New York, Corresponding Secretary. General Llartianft, of Pennsylvania, made a short address In which he counselled cautious action, so as not to arouse opposition. He reviewed the history of the militia organization In hlJ own State and said that If Congress would give the desired $000,000 for arms and ordnance stores they would ask for nothing more.

The repeal of obsolete laws affecting the mllltla was saved for future consideration. He moved that a committee be appointed to prepare a bill similar to the one by the Senate appropriating this money, and that the Slocum bill be referred to the same committee. He thought this committee ought to confer with the officials of the Government and of Congress, and then draw up a bill. They might not be able to report to this meeting, but they The wife ol Abe Buzzard, tho West ports of the Attorney ucnerm, owrc'ru of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Curronoy. They were laid on the table lor the proxunt.

Mr. Uuck, of Connecticut, presented a resolution of the Connecticut Legislature asking that a suitable bill be passed tor the ascertainment and counting of tho electoral vote, and the House adjourned until Monday. In the Senate on the 14th a joint resolution was presented from the Legislature of Connecticut asking the passage, without delay, of a bill to provide for tho Presidential oount, Tho memorial of Southern Dakota, praying for aUmlrsion as a State, wag also presented. The Presidential auocession bill was reported favorably by Mr. Hoar, lue Committee on Appropriation was Increased to ton members, and Senator Logan ap-nnhitnri tn timt Mr.

Hoar, rrom ern Pennsylvania- outlaw, visited him at tho Lancaster jail the other day and linn nn nffiwtinrr farewell. Abe Was Bcntenccd for thirteen years. The Dakota Legislature went through the forms of organizing the Territory into a State at Huron on the 15th, and elected Judges Moody and the Committee on Judiciary, reported favorably a bill fixing the salary of United States District Judges at The Senate then went into executive session. When the l.npa wi.r nunpil mflSSHIM) WAS reCOlVeu dent In the case of the removal or death of either the President or Vice President the Secretary of State shall notify the chief executive of the several States thereof, and they be requested to notify the electors to meet on the first Wednesday next ensuing after the expiration of one month from and after the notice by the Secretary of State, and shall select a President and Vice President It is further provided that, in the event of the death, removal or disability of both the seriously injured. The vault was The Cherokee Council adjourned on tho Edgcrton United States Senators.

Prince Bismarck was painfully in Chautauqua Counties to the south line of the State. Miss Jackson has brought suit at Topeka against the famous Nollie Bailey for services rendered in writing the life of the latter. The contract was that Miss Jackson should receive $500 as soon as Miss Bailey from the Prosldent transmitting the Keiloy correspondence recently called for and the Senate adjourned. tho House Mr. Morrison, from the Committee on Kules.

thu i-mmi't of the conmilttue on the 16th. There was a deadlock between the Senate and Chief Bushyhead. Jured the other day by tho stumbling of At Woodmore, a suburb of Detroit, bis horse. The muscles of thoFrince's leg were so severely strained as to Interfere with his walking and he was confined to his residence. early the other morning, frank Knox, his wife and two children were burned to death in their house.

There were suspicions that the house had been robbed President ana Vice rresitieut, in case no Vice President has been elected, the Secretary of State shall act as President until an election can be held and consummated. If there be no Secretary of State, then the office shall revert to the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Attorney General, tho Secretary of the Navy, Mm Secretary of the Interior, and the Post should receive a large sum of money due her pending the decision of the court. Ro cently she received the money, $7,800, hut failed to settle with her biographer, hence the suit. Tub shorthorn breeders recently held an interesting mooting at Topeka. A resolution was passed as the sense of the associa and the parties murdered.

It was reported in London that rarneu and Gladstone would agree on a measure of homo rule for Ireland. The concessions I Dr. C. V. Riley, Government Entomologist, has presented to tho National Museum at Washington his private collection of insects, containing twenty thousand species and one hundred and fifteen thousand specimens.

would be liberal, but would not imperil the Imperial Confederation. proposed revision of rtiles, and it was ordered to be printed and laid over one day, permission being given to Mr. ltandall, of Pennsylvania, to submit a minority roport. A motion by Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, for the call of States for the introduction or bills was defeated, and the House adjourned.

In the Senate on tho 15th a bill was Introduced for the admission of a portion of Dakota as a State. Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill for the sale of the Klcknpoo diminished reservation in Kansas. Senator George introduced a bill to pension soldiers of tho Mexican war. Mr.

Edmunds introduoed a bill granting a pension to Mrs. Julia 1). Grant, and another bill granting hor the franking privilege. The report of the Committee on Kules, embracing a code of joint rulea for the two houBes of Congross, was thn called up and after a lengthy debjte on rule 13, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Capitol, the rule was the House Mr. Morrison called up the report of the Committee on Kules and a lively debate at once commenced and was coutiuued until adjourn incut.

In the Senate on the 16th Mr. Manderson introduced a bill to provide for tho pension master General, in the order named, who shall act as President until an election can be had as provided in the bill, provided thnt no one of these officers shall be competent to act as President who would not be eligible to the Presidency of the United States Ik the Unitod States Court at Atlanta, Judge McCoy refused to continue the tion that the law providing for a State Live Stock Sanitary Commission and Veterinarian should be continued in force and receive generous support from the Legislature. The following officers wore chosen: Presidont, W. A. Harris, of Linwood Vice-President, J.

B. McAffee, of Topeka; Secretary and Treasurer, E. W. Shelton, of as provided by the Constitution. could be authorized to prepare a bill for introduction in Congress.

Remarks wore made by General Faiusworth, of Now York, and others, the eeneral tenor of which was that everything should be subordinated to securing the aopropriatlon. General llart-ranft's motion was adopted, and committee appointed as follows: General Snow-den, of Pennsylvania; General Campbell, of Kansas; General Old way, General Hart-ranft, of Pennsylvania; General Jones, of North Carolina; Colonel Castleman, of Kentucky; General Finley, of Ohio. The following officers were elected General George W. Wingate, of New York, President; Adjutant General John S. Jones, of North Carolina, First Vice President; Adjutant General A.

B. Campbell, of Kansas, Second Vice President; Colonel Charles E. Bridge, of New York, Corresponding Secretary; Adjutant General W. L. Alexander, ot Iowa, Recording Secretary, and General Bonnel, of Nebraska, Treasurer.

The following executive committeo was appointed: For the New England States, General Elisha Bhoades, ot Providence, B. for the Middle States, Major Andrew D. Hepburn, Philadelphia; for the Southern States, General I). II. Maury, Louisiana; for tiie Western States, Colonel James M.

Rice, Peoria, for the Pacific States, Injunction restraining the ordinary irom announcing the result of the prohibition election, and decided the case against the liquor men upon every point. The bill AGREED. The Balkan Belligerent to Keep Their Positions Until the Difficulty Is Diplomatic I A recent cablegram stated that forty Servians had been shot for mutilating themselves by blowing their trigger finger off or otherwise injuring themselves to escape military eervice, and that King Milan ordered their execution. adopted had a provision that uoorgia wines might be sold, but wines from other States should be excluded. That portion of the bill the Judge decided was unconsti tutional and ruled that no wines at all could be sold.

ing of all persons who served forat least one Tub Dacoits of Burmah made a raid in year during the lato war and were eitner ais charged upon surgeon's certificate of disa bility, or who were discharged with the re-enlidiinent clause stricken from their certiil- the vicinity of Mandalay the other night and fired on the British outposts, wound onin. Senator Plumb introduced a bill to rLEUito-i'NEUMONU has developed among a large herd of cattlo at West Willow, near Lancaster, Fa. Several animals have already died. Manhattan. Executive Committee: George W.

Glick, of Atchison; C. L. Burnham, of Manhattan; and S. T. Bennett, of Safford.

Topeka was selected as the place of the next meeting, which will be hold on the second Tuesday in December, 1886. The State Grange Patrons of Husbandry recently met at Topeka. From reports on the growth of the ordor tho past year it appears that the order is in a good condition in the State. The co-operative enterprises that have been undertaken have been entirely successful, and a growing interest is reported as being manifested among the farmers for a more extended trial of cooperative plans and measures. Mutual protection, life insurance and other co-operative schemes wore thoroughly discussed.

A resolution was adopted reciting that much of what is now attempted to be taught ing one officer and killing a native. The British returned the fire, killing seven provido for the payment of bounty to cer. lain discharged soldiers of the L'nited Btaies Army. Senator Teller Introduced a bill to Dr. Bridge, State Veterinarian, visited A sensation was caused In Paris the provide for the free and unlimited com-age of silver.

Senator Ingalls Introduced a bill to provide for determining thA oTlntHnnn mid removal of the in four other day by the collapse of a portion of the herd recently and ordered billed and tho rest quarantined. the Pont Neuf, which connects He de la Cite, on which is situated the cathedral church of Notre Dame, with both sides of ally Settled. London, December 18. It is understood that the following points represent what has been agreed upon by the conference of the Ambassadors of the Towers who are engaged iu an effort to arrange a temporary settlement of the dispute between Servia and Bulgaria: The armies are not to advance beyond the positions occupied on December upon the decision of the commission which is to be appointed to arrange definite terms of peace the respective armies shall at once retire within boundaries allotted to each Government by the commission; and no further military movements shall take place until the congress of the powers called to meet at Vienna in January shall have agreed upon the future relations of th-Balkan States to one another and to Eu rope. It is said that Austria is secretly opposing the first clause and will urge Servia not to consent to it in the hope that a more favorable strategic position may be assigned her than that occupied on December 8.

OKLAHOMA. ability of the President to dlsoharge tho powers and duties of his offioe. The Chair laid before tho Senate a message from the President transmitting the report of the See-retarv of the Interior, calling attention to the river Seine. It is the largost bridge in thx iwinilititin nf some of the Cheyenne In Paris, and one of the oldest. linns The PrnHidmitlal Succession bill was TnE steamer City of Mexico was boarded then diseiiNsed until executive session, after I M.

Waddinoton, the French- Ambassador, and the Marquis of Salisbury, liad a conference in London recently, which resulted in an agreement that English influence would bo exerted with tho Malagasy Government to conclude a treaty of peace with France. which theSonnte the House tho Ki.nntii hill mimed rcmovinir the political Colonel Horace D. Ranlett, San Francisco. The committee appointed to draft a bill for presentation to Congress for the benefit ot the State militia, submitted a message proposing an appropriation of $1,000,000 annually for the purpose of providing ordnance stores, etc, for issue to the militia. It was agreed to.

An assessment of $15 to defray the expenses of the association was ordored levied on each State represented. Tho question of the relative merits of regimental or brigade camps, and whetner It is best to hold them near large cities, was taken up and discussed at length. Of the nineteen delegates who took part in the debate ten favored brigade encampments and nine favored the regimental camp. An Invitation from the President to call on him was received and accepted, and the convention adjourned. by oustoms officers recently at New York and a large quantity of arms taken out.

Information had been received that the arms were for a filibustering expedition on Cuba. A customs official was also put in charge of the vessel. diiabillties of Alexander K. Lawton, of Ucnrgin. Tho discussion of the proposod revision of the rules was resumed and lasted all day, and without concluding the general debute the House adjourned.

In the Senate on the 17th Mr. Plumb DuitiNQ a fight in Renfrew, recently, Introduced a resolution, which was adopted, in our common schools should be omitted from the course of study, and that in place of the same, there should be employed kindergarten methods, object lessons and instruction in those subjects on natural and domestic science which have relation to agriculture, horticulture, household economy and the various industries which employ the people, and the Normal School should have for its special object the qualifying of teachers to make the needed reform, and that the Agricultural College and University should have attached normal departments for a like object. Tub report of the State Board of Agri between natives and Poles, one man was requesting tho Secretary of tho Interior to killed and two others fatally wounded. furnish tho Senate with the names or an sot- A veuy disastrous fire broke out in Jack tliirn nnil rinmrrintlon of odd numbered sec i An old lady, Mary B. Brown, recently died at Snlina City, aged ninety-throe years, who was an eye witness to the launching of Fulton's first steamboat on tho Hudson, at which time she was sixteen years old She had distinct and intelligent recollections of that important event and its tions of land settled upon by such settlers within tho granted limits of each of the land arrant railroads in the State of Kansas.

Mr. sonville, early on the morning of the 17th. The loss amounted to over insurance. 8305.000. The Are started in rrnnini r- null nn A A POI KIT Manderson Introduced a bill to provide for loeatinu a branch of the Soldiers Home.

Mr. Mitchell, the new Senator from Oregon, was sworn In, Hr. Hour reported favorably the bill to tlx the day for the meeting of tho Nlimtorn nf President and Vice-President. The Coveted Lands May Probably be Purchased. St.

Louis, December 18. Corretta M. Micco, second chlof, and C. Ferryman, brother of Chlof Ferryman, delegates ot the Creek Indians to Washington, arrived this morning, en route to the natioual capital. To a reporter Mr.

Ferryman said lie and Delegate Micco would remain in Washington durins the session of the present Con culture for the quarter ending December 80, 1885, will contain a compendium of the census of the State forthe decennial period principal actors. i The celebration of tho two hundredth anniversary of tho introduction Tho Presidential Succession bill was then passed. After executive session the Senate In tho House Mr. Dibble intro ended March 1, 1885, so far as it relates to the enumeration of inhabitants and the duced a resolution prnnosinir a coustltii' tional amendment providing for the election of a Second Vice President, who should be Vice-President In case the tlrst suo6oeded to I cnniDLC nMiknunw Twelve Furious Killed and Others Fatally Injured. Atlanta, December 15.

One of the most terrible railroad accidents ever known In Georgia occurred last night at midnight fifteen miles, from here on the Georgia Pacific Road. The East Tennessee Georgia Pacific Road uses the same track to Austell, and last night the Georgia Pacific mixed train with one coach nnd one sleeper stopped at the tank to get water. The coach and sleeper were on a trestle thirty feet high, the East Tennessee fast passenger train going at a speed of thirty miles struck the sleeper and the engine went nearly half way through it Hubbard's warehouses. Puepauations were reported making at Huron, Dakota, to call a convention of settlors and others for the purposeof denouncing Land Commissioner Sparks for his recent rulings in public land cases. The Secretary of the Interior bas requested the Attorney Genei nl to institute suits in about forty additional cases against cattlemen for illegally fencing the public lands in Kansas, Nobraska, Wyoming nnd Colorado.

In many of these cases criminal actions will be brought. Ix joint session on the 17th the so-called State Legislature of Dakota declared A. C. G. Moody and the Hon.

A. G. Edgerton electod United States Senators for the State of South Dakota. ef tho art of printing in tho middle colonies began under tho auspices of the Pennsylvania Historical Society at tho hall of tho society in Philadelphia the Presidency. The delate ou tne now ruii'i then commenced and continued until ad' agricultural statistics.

It will also present aeuiumary of the reports of correspondents on the corn crop, the area of winter wheat, etc. C. Wood Davis has brought suit in the United States Circuit Court at Topeka gress for the purpose of looking after the Interests of the Creeks. "The most Important question affecting the Creeks," said he, "is the sale ot Oklahoma lauds to the United States Government Anions: the Creeks and Seminoles the senti journment. "PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Mu. Gladstone has written an open letter addressed to all the gentlemen who have congratulated him upon the result of tho 11th. The Rev. Dr. Georgo Dana Boardman delivered an address on the "Art of Printing in America." A number of prominent publishers and literary men wcro present.

tho general elections. He says that it is ment is about half and half In favor of a compromise settlement with the general Government, but the Cherokees, who are jointly interested in the lands with the Creeks and Seminoles are unquestionably opposed to the settlement of Oklahoma by the whitos. I think that if the Government made the Creeits and Seminoles a square offer for the lands that it would be accepted." physical impossibility to reply to all his friends individually. Tub funeral services over the remains of At the request of Governor Hill, the United States Supreme Court has expe the lute King Alfonso took place at the against tho St. Louis San Francisco Railway Company for overcharges and damages.

There are four cases, two being for overcharges, amounting to between $6,000 and $7,000, and the two others being damage suits growing out of discrimination in cars and other facilities in transportation. The original claims in the two discrimination suits were for they now, bj adding interest, amount to over $90,000. In addition to these cases, two suits to recover overcharges are pending in the District Court at Wichita, in which the amount involved overruns $10,000. The plaintiff alleges that tho road discriminated Church of St. Francis the Great, Madrid ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES).

IIom. Joiin It. Goodis, a prominent Domocratio politician of Kansas, died at Wyandotte, on the morning of the on the 12th. All tho sovereign heads of Europe were represented and tho members CYCLONE AT COLON. Another Cyclone at Colon Creates Great Havoc Lobs of Shipping.

Panama. December 17. Colon has been 18th. He was sent to Congress from tne Second Dist rict about ten years ago, and as also at one time a Democratic candr- ate for Governor. Tub Singer sewing machine factory at The wreck was terrible.

The fireman sprang overboard and received slight injuries. The engineer held to the throttle and was unhurt The following persons on the Georgia train were killed: Bernard Peyton, of Charlottsville, Nathan Hanley, An-nlston, Jacob and MaryBsuks, Jones-boro, J. J. Bright and wife and two children, of Jouesboro, a wealthy Texan named Pierce, ot Aberdeen, T. Hugty, East Point, two children who are dead are unknown.

The following are the fatally injured: Mrs. Eliza Brown, home unknown; William Cook, of Fairburn, Texan not known who was in company with Pierce. About ten others were more or less hurt. The dead and wounded have been brought to Atlanta. PLAYING STATE.

The Legislature Organizes the State of Dakota and Elects Moody and Edgerton dited the hearingof the case of William 8. Roberts, President of the defunct tank of Augusta, Ga. The State of New York demanded his extradition on tho charge of stealing a deposit of Iotirtcen thousand and five hundred ttollars, and depositing it to his own account in the Mercantile National Bank, New York. On th 15th the Supreme 'Court removed the last obstacles to the extradition of Roberts and a detective Immediately left New Yorkfor Augusta to effect his arrest. Elizabethport, N.

shut down recently because of a tax lovy of $20,000 by the city. Two thousand five hundred employes were idlo. against him iu charges for coal, which he mined and shipped Irom Pittsburgh, and in favor of a rival company owned by tho officers of the road, nnd by which his business wos ruined. In a case recently decided by the Supreme Court that tribunal held that where an agent such as is usually denominated a "drummer" or "commercial traveler," simply exhibits samples of goods kept for sal of the diplomatic corps were present. The civil and military pageant was an imposing spectacle and was witnessed by an immense throng.

Madams Pavunk Lucca, the great prima donna, who has boon making a concert tour of Russia, is lying seriously ill at Charkoff. Samuel Dter, Abolitionist, the staunch friend of Gnrrison and Phillips, died on the 15th at Southampton, of softening of the brain, nged seventy-eight. Prince Fkudixand, of Saxe-Coburg, father of the King of Portugal, died on the 15th of a facial cancer, which had been aggravated by a fall. Db. T.

E. Holland, of St. Louis, has been appointed on the Board of Pension Exam The Senate, on the 18th, passed the bill visited by a very severe cyclone which has done considerable damage. It commenced on the 2d about two p. m.

and next day lulled, but recommenced again with terrible severity. All steamers In the port put out to sea for safety, returned and had again to put out The damage to property is heavy and the loss of life was most serious. The following vessels sunk with their crews: Holden, Karavan.Blanche, Atwood, Archt, Veteran, Ocesn, Lynton, Avelina, Stella, Catalina, FignrM Douglas and two others, names not ascertained. The rain poured down iu torrents nnd a terrific gale of wind from the northeast set in. The Royal Mall's new freight granting a pension to the widow of General Grant.

A very spirited debate took place over the Dakota Statehood question, the matter going over. The House continued to discuss the rovision of rules, A motion to strike out the distribution feature of tho proposed changes was rejected by 220 to 70. I Adjutant- General King, of Texas, las received a letter from W. II. Titus, residing in El Paso County, stating that wn December 2 about twenty-five Mex by his principal, and takes orders from purchasers for such goods, which goods are afterward to be delivered by the principal to tho purchasers, and payment for the eroods is to be made by the purchasers to Hums, the dofaultmg Lewiston (Idaho) Postmaster, has been tried and acquitted on office was destroyed by the storm.

Wharf No. 4, belonging to the Panama Railroad, four of the eight indictments fouud against him. United States Senators. Huron, December 16. The first Legislature of the State of Dakota assembled at Huron Monday morning.

Under the constitution it was made the duty of Joseph J. Campbell, Chairman of the State Executive Committee, to call the House to order and swear Iu the members. Ninety iners to fill tho vacancy caused by the death of Dr. E. C.

Franklin. Gknekal Robert Toombs, the well known Southern statesman, died at Washington, was almost demolished ana the rails torn Business failures for week ended Decern- up and earthworks destroyed by the force of the tornado. borlS numbered: For tho United States, 233; Canada, 22; a total of 255, against 247 on the evening of the 15th. He had been critically sick for several weeks pre the principal on such delivery, such agent is neither a peddler nor a merchant. Nor does there seem to be any authority under the statute for cities of the second class to levy license taxes upon drummers or commercial travelers.

Onb reeent Sunday Mrs, Theodore S. Fer-rter, an old lady seventy-two years of age, living just east of Meade Center, while in front of her house, observed a tho week previous. The grand total of Jacksonville Fire. Jacksonville, Decembor 18. In viously and was unconscious when he died, failures in the United States from January 1 to December 10 is 10,771, against 11,088 in spite of the efforts of the firemen the fire M.

AnoU'H Dkuciiek, at present Vice President of Switzerland, has been elected President for the year lS-'Sti. Ho is a a like period in 1SS4, a decline of 816. The totals for fifty weeks of 1SS3, 1883 and 1SS1 respectively were 0,510, 7,703 and 5,939. which broke out in Hubbard's warehouses on the dock, spread to the Abel block, In which were located the Herald newspaper and several billiard halls. McCormack's, ican soldiers crossed into Texas and deliberately stole a herd of twenty-five attlo belonging to Americans.

When Ihe soldiers put in an appearance the cow boys asked them their authority ior crossing into Texas and driving off cattle. The leader told them they had better go back to camp. Titus asked 'the Adjutant General for State Rangers To protect the frontier. General King replied that whatever aid they could Tender would be freely given, but such on invasion by foreign soldiers was fully within the scope of the authority of the United States army, and the matter would be brought to the notice t)f the President. Tub balloting on the 15th for Mayor of Boston resulted in the re-election of Hugh John Macks and a woman supposed to of the ninety-nine members were present Then on motion, Mr.

Greene Turner, of Marshall County, was nominated Temporary Speaker and unanimously elected on the roll call. A joint resolution was adopted fixing four o'clock as the hour for receiving the Senate and State officers and for administering the oath of office to the latter. A that hour these officers and the Senate took seats in the House, when Judge Campbell administered to them the oath. The joint session then terminated and the Senate) returned. A joint resolution was adopted that they meet in joint session Tuesday noon to select Senators.

The House be his wife were arrested in London recently for sending threatening letters to the Prince of Wales. The letters demandod O'Brien, Democrat, over J. M. Clark, Republican, by a majority of 8,537 in a total vote of 44,757. O'Brien's majority is the Hubbard's aud the Abel block on Hie wharf with their contents were destroyed.

The fire was finally stopped at Kohn, Furchgatt Benedict's store on the east the western limit including McConiheo's hardware store. About two a. m. a portion of the front wall largest ever given to a Mayoralty candidate in Boston. 150, for the purpose of emigrating to America.

The pretense was that they had received orders from a secret society to take the Prince's life, and they would have Tub President sent the following new ild goose flying over. Nobody but herself being at home, she obtained a gun and at the first shot brought down the game. Tub State Grange at its late meeting declared unanimously in favor of the enfranchisement of women. It also asked that the office of Commissioner of Agriculture be made a Cabinet position. Mb.

Morgax, residing near Walton, while recently crossing the railroad track with his team, was struck by a switch engine, both horses being kiUed and himself seriously injured. J. E. Norse, a Fall River teacher, was recently taken before a Justice of the Peace, chareed with excessively whipping a six- nominations to the Senate on the 15th: to obey or fly to America. Tub Susquehanna Coal Company's mine John Bigelow, of New York, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York City, salary General Frans at Nanticoke, was flooded by water on Sigel, of New York, to be Pension Agent at adjourned at 12:40.

The Senate met in their hall and took the oath of office from Judge Campbell Lieutenant-Governor Frank took the chair and J. Hi Drake, of Brown County, was elected Secretary. The so-called Legislature elected Judges Moody and Edgerton United States Senators for the would-be State of Dakota. of the Abel block fell crushing lour colored firemen, one of whom, William Bradley, was instantly killed. The other three were badly but not fatally injured.

A white fireman named Golf was badly cut oa the head by falling brick. During the day a man working among the debris was suffocated by smoke and carried to the hospital in a helpless condition. Firemen are still playing oa the smouldering ruins. The loss is estimated at 8450,000, the insurance at 350,000. ar.of A Tough.

Poplab Bmrr, December 17. New York City. The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided the case of Scofield, Schurner League against the Lake Shore Michigan Southern Railroad, in favor the plaintiffs. They are independ the morning of the ISth. Some thirty men were entombed out of about one thousand who were working in the mine, the others succeeding in escaping.

Strenuous efforts were being made to rescue the imprisoned The bequeathed to the Yander- bilt University by the late William H. year-old pupil. He pleaded guilty and was miners, but it would take some time for Vanderbilt will be used in the erection of a fireproof library building and the purchase fined five dollars and costs. Numerous prairie fires lately. the pumps to clear the mine of water.

of books for the same. The Alameda Grape Growers' Associv tion, of Livermore, and Larned Kan MISCELLANEOUS. filed its charter at Topeka tne other aay, Charles Nichols, a five-year-old boy, was shockingly mangled by a Newfound The directors are J. L. Mitchell, u.

w. Brock. W. B. Morrill, George Brammar, E.

This morning between twelve and one o'clock a terrible fight took plac tjtween John Hampton, of this city, and Eugene McCIardy. of Union County, 111. Both 41,. land dog at Newark, N. J-, recently.

The boy will be a cripple for life. 2. Ackley and P. P. Gardener, of liver-more.

CaL: and R. Riblet. C. M. Kestler men were aiienaing aacr mo ent oil refiners of Cleveland, and sought to enjoin the railroad company from granting the Standard Oil Company lower rates for carrying oil from Cleveland west than it granted them.

They claimed that lower rates were piven the Standard Oil Company by giving them a rebate on tho regular tariff. The case was decided by Judge Blandin of the Cujohaga Common Pleas, and the question raised was reserved in the District Court, and the case brought direct to the Supreme Court, where it was argued a few weeks ego and has just been decided Font deaths and four serious cases of scarlet fever have occurred in the Protes Toombs Dead. WASjnxGTox, December 16. General Robert Toombs died here last evening at six o'clock. General Toombs had bee-unconscious for several days, and surrounded by his family and friends he quietly and painlessly passed away.

General Toombs' funeral will take place Thursday morning. General Toombs had been 111 for many months, and It was thought several times that he could not lire twenty-four hours, but until yesterday he had rallied, and though ha had never recovered strength had given hopea of a partial recovery, 1'Ji Jaat slnlciiie, wlilotl III fl3fttil, stout wwK W. H. Coombs, in charge of td. Hammond store at Arlee, wag attacked by two Indians, supposed to be Spokanes, recently, who forcibly entered the store and drove him out Coombs fired at them, killing ono and seriously wounding tho other.

Arlee was deserted soon after by the whites, the Spokanes coming in and occupying the place. It was reported in Madrid that the Sultan of Morocco had offered to cede territory to both Spain and France, in order to gain their support against the colonizing schemes of FbaxzTravier ElBACTBAifn, Bishop of Green Bay, dl4 recently at his home In Green JJay, pi ajy.plexy, aged Ut; -gin. tant Episcopal Home for Children in Pittsburgh, and the situation was regarded as alarming. and E. L.

Blood, of Topeka. Some time since a farmer in Cheyenne County lost a horse which he hauled out on the prairie, opened and filled with poison. The next day he found twenty-five coyotes dead that had partaken of the flesh. How many more met with the same fate he could not tell. Cocxtt TrvaMirer hv about oompietad At Cambridge, on the seventh bal river, when they bad a dispute which wound up in this fight.

McClardy's face and head were cut aud mangled so badly that he was hardly recognized by those who knew him. Hampton is an old resident ot this place and considered a pretty toush case, lie Is one of the parties whom Davis charged witn thootlng hire In the neck and back some three or tour week aga, and for Trfclen. po ytt Ui- lot Rov. Channcy M. Williamson, of Au gusta, was elected Bishop of the Diocese of Boston of th Protestant Episcopal Church, to succeed Henry Ljr, Ali.i "KV ln aruvtu" lave.

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